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24 Howley Confident of St. Louis’ Class : Clubs Lose by Failure lo PAIR HAS 743 SET s Toue DAN SURE BROWNS ARE REAL THREAT Nationals Face Tough Sled-| ding in West Beginning at Cleveland Today. BY JOHN I KELLER. LEVELAND, May 4.—Looks as though the West will have a big say in this American League flag race. listening to Dan Howley during the big pow- wow in the Hotel Cleveland lobby ves- terday afternoon. one could not heip but conclude that the Browns have a great chance to end the East's domina- tion over the pennant chase that has extended through the past eight years. Rained out of their series final with the Indians, the Browns were waiting at the hotel to greet the Nationals, who today were to begin their initial as-| saults upon Western strongholds this season, and a great gabfest between the members of the first and last place | teams of the junior major league en- sued. But none had more to say than Howley, and he made it plain that he | believes his club is in the battle to the | finish. “My club isn't a great ball club,” said the Browns' manager. “but it's a really good one. Good enough to fool many pre-season critics who thought the wo of the Browns last year when they fin- ished third was only a flash in the| pan. 1 Play Smart Base Ball. | “We have good pitching. good ficld- | ing and play smart base ball. And we are no weaklings at bat. True, our batting average now is only .272, but | what of it? Three of our regulars are | hitting above .300. another is hifting just for that mark and one more is just under it. And we are hitting in | pinches, which is the thing that tells in the long run. “Our -outfield is covering ground in great style and hitting hard. Manush, Schulte and McGowan make a fine | combination in the gardens. | “And look at our outfield. Blue is smacking all pitching - nd fielding great guns at first base. Melillo isn’t much | of & hitter, of course. Don’t expect him | ever to be. But how he can play sec- | ond base. And he's in good health now. He ought to go right through the sea- son at the middle sack. | “And there’s Kress at shortstop. | Don't overlook him. A much improved player. He's hitting well again. As for O'Rourke at third, I consider him one of the finest players any club could | have. Always hustling, always giving the best he has. And that best is good. Dor.'t forget that. He's a .276 hitter at present. “And what a pitching array. Gray has his fast ball and curve working as smoothly as ever. Crowder has a great fast ball. And both know how to pitch. Think of what they have done. Gray has won four games and lo:t mone. Crowder has won three and lost one. ‘We have a clever pitcher in Ogden, and Stewart, our main lefthander, is vastly improved. He's in good health now and we expect much of him this year. Good Relief Pitchers. “Back of these starters we have for relief work Blaeholder, Collins and Coffman. The first two of these are in | eplendid trim. Coffman still has to come through, but I have great faith in him. He'll make the grade, you can | bet. Schang is catching a great game. | He's a wonderful old receiver. And he's throwing as well as ever. And we have Manion and Ferrell. This Ferrell is just about the best kid catcher I ever saw., He'll be a great star. We have good reserves for all departments, something that must not be overlooked. “As I said, it's not a great team. A good one, though, that hustles always. ‘We'll win a lot of ball games this year.” All of which might mean the going will be quite rough for the Nationals in this first swing through the West. For they are saying here that the Tigers, despite their poor start, are not to be considered lightly and that the White Sox are apt to prove trouble- some. Even the Indians have some standing among base ball followers out this way. The Nationals have some | heights to scale, it would seem. RACE STRIKE ENDED; | MEET OPENS TODAY By the Assoclated Press. AURORA, T, May 4-—Chicago's Spring racing season, delayed three days by a horsemen’s strike, oprned at | Aurora track today. The strike ended suddenly late ves- terday in a compromise just as it ap- | peared as though the deadlock would | cause continued postponement. Both factions claimed a victory. Under terms of agreement the track management consented to coliect 1 per cent of the purse money won by an owner, who makes an individual as signment of that share of his purse to the Horsemen's Association. The track management granted one point by making a slight increase in | purses. For the first seven days the daily distribution of prize money will | total $6.000. For the remainder of the | meeting there will be a daily distribu- | tion of $6,600. | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | | American League. YESTERDAY'S RES 2| Percentage, Washimgton at Clev Rostan a¢ Defrait. New York at Chi Fovis. il Phi'a. at St. Leuis. Few York at Chicago. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. All games postponed, rain. Cincinnati GAMES TOMORROW nigtshureh 2t Raston, Cincinnati at_Brklin. St. Louis at N, York. TH AW COME ON VP To JACK'S HOUSE - JUST A CCUpLE OF HOURS QF POKER AND - You HNOwW- Do AN BE BUT wWoNT SOoRE - cH - B THIS TIME NdPE can' T\ THE FRAU DINNER AND I'™M LATE Now SHVE | SUPPo S DINNER'S ALL OVER BY NIT 1T- | WENT Docce D PROMISED D +HOME FOR BEING SO RECEP S S 1 DREAD ‘THE DICKENS FoR 1 DREAD THE NOW FOR THE DIRTY WORK -~ GOSH - HOw. V'LL CATCH BT - GOING To GET R- OVER I'D HAVE GIVEN ANY- THING To HAVE GONE UP To JACK'S PLACE | TONIGHT AND HAD A GAME " DepR FRED - TRIED To GET You oN THE PHONE THE NIGHT - SHE'S ILL~ STAY ouT AvD HAVE A GooD TiIME ToM GHT = SATURDAY. —BY BRIGGS e HAVE To GO To MAMA'S FoR £ NoTe FromM THE WIFE UHLE GIVES CHISOX ONLY FIVE BINGLES Cleveland - Exile Wins His Fourth Game for Tigerg by a Score of 6-1. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN. Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EORGE UHLE, Cleveland exile, had the big league spotlight all to himself yesterday as cold | weather caused further devas- tation in the base ball sched- ule. Uhle pitched Detroit to victory | over the White Sox, 6 to 1. The game was put on in the cold reaches of Comiskey Park. ¢ | Cold weather and rain swept the Na- | tional League schedule clean and pre- | vented the one other championship en- | gagement planncd in the American. The Yankees went through with their ex- hibition at_Pittsburgh, a Pirate victory by 8 to 2 being the net result. | Games could have been played in New York and Brooklyn, among other | places, but the grounds were in none too good condition, and the temperature | was_such that any contests outdoors | would have been practically private af- fairs. The growing favor in which the Car- dinals are being held by National League eritics will focus attention of the ad- dicts upon the Polo Grounds where Billy Southworth will parade his vet- eran pitching corps before the heavy | maulers of the Clan McGraw for the | next few days. Only slight less interest- ing will be the effort of the Cubs to | shake off thelr Philly jinx at Baker | owl. The first stand of the American League clubs on the Western front will find the Athletics besieging Sportsman'’s Park in the first crucial series, real or suspected; of the young n. | The victory of Uhle over the White | Sox yesterday revealed him at his best. | He gave the Sox five hits, and never | seemed in_danger after his mates tied the score for him in the second. The | Chicago troops pushed one run across the plate in the first on a single and a | pair of errors by Heinfe Schuble. ' | The triumph was Uhle’s fourth of the season. It was helped along by Charlie | Gehringer's home run. | Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK—Gorilla Jones, Akron, | ©Ohio, outpointed Al Mello, Boston (10). | ST. LOUIS—Davey Abad, Panama, | outpointed Canncnball Martin. Brooklyn | ¢10). Chico Chisoneras, Mexico City, outpointed Joe Lucas, Detroit (10). CAMDEN, N. J—Roxy Allen, Chi- | cago, defeated Spike Webb, Miami (8). GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — George | Manley. Denver, knocked out Buck | Easterling, Barrerton, Ohio '(3). MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Indianapolis, 4: Kansas City, 8. Min: a’ Columbus, 6. st Louisvill po) Paul. 7: Toledo, 0. je-Milwaukee, cold. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. All games postponed, weather. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. New Orleans. 9: Atlarta, 5. Birmingham, 3 Mobije. 2 Chattanooca, 5. Memphic. 4. Little Rock, 4 Nashville, 3. PIEDMONT 1 Winston-Salem. 12 oint. Henderson, FASTERN LEAGUE. eport-Springfi SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. THE SPO RTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. Not So Strong. NLY a few years ago American tennis stars, headed by Tilden and Johnston, dominated the Davis Cup reservation. Two years ago bred golfers crushed the British pros at Worcester. Only a short while back foreign fighters were placed in the joke class. The pendulum is be- ginning to swing. Starting in from behind with a lead to cut away Britith golfers brought the Ryder Cup back home. The Davis Cup has been in France for two years, And in arrang-; ing a semi-final for the heavyweight championship it was necessary to go after a German and a Spaniard with only second-rate entries left among the | American heavies. The American aver- age is still high enough, but it no longer sweeps the entire landscape. Not by several kilometers to spare. Tm: British idea before this has been to take the event in its stride, with- out bothering_too much about training and ‘practice. the professional side. But to ward off the menace of the Changing Ideas. late American invasion, British golfers | went to work with days of practice and rounds of competitive play. And the | change brought about victory in place | of defeat. Yet there is something to the old British idea in sport of taking the contest in its stride. We are too much inclined to take our sport too seriously, to overwork i, to make it a grind and a drab undertaking, in place of a recreation and a re- lease from the main Job. “The main purpose of sport should be recreation, physical development and nerve rejuvenation or rest, especially on the amateur side. As sport with the professional is also his life’s work, there should be a wide difference. The pro is paid to get ready to give the best he has to give and this must include a certain amount of grind and grubbing. but when it is also a business for the amateur, then the amateur is a professional. Form and Effort. | VJIKE SWEENEY. the famous phy cal director of Hill School, brings up one of the most important factors in form development or form improve- ment. “The problem of acquiring !form,” says the veteran director, “should be accompanied with no thought given to the matter of physical effort. The idea Of effort defeats or checks the idea of form. They can go together after form is perfected or at least is made intuitive. But - too often the contestant, or player tries to work out both at the same time.” This is com- pletely true. A ball player or a golfer trying to work out a correct method of swinging also tries to hit the ball as BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By | National. Batting—Stephenson, Runs — Stephenson, Critz, Reds, 13. Runs batted in—Wilson. Cubs, 17. Hits—Stephenson, Cubs, 23. Doubles—Frisch, Cards the Associated Press. _ Wilson, TEXAS LEAGUE. Waco. 8: Dallas, 4 San Antonin. 3 Wichita Falls. 7; Beaumont. COTTON STATES LEAGLUE. Monroe. 0. Hettieshure 5. Fldnrado, 2 0 4 (11 innings) Meridian. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 1 FASTERN CAROL Wilmington. 14: Greenville Rncie Mount. 4 Kinston, 0, 4 Goldsboso, 8, Fayellevillc, 5o 6. Triples—Hornshy, Cuyler, Cubs: Bis- ctte, Cullop, Robins; L. Waner, Pi- rates; Walker, Reds, 2 Homers — Harper, Cub, 4 Stolen bases—Flowers, Robins, 5. Pitching—Malone, Cubs; won 3, lost none. Braves; Wilson, Jam | | | Batting | Blue, RUNG - Tiger: Runs Browns; Hits—Blue, Browns, 27. Doubles—Dykes, Athletics, 7. Triples — Blue, Browns; Alexander, Tigers, 2. Homers—Blue, 4 Browns; Foxx, Sim- | " Fonseca, Averill, In- | dians, 4. | Pitching—Uhle, Tigers; won 4, lost | none, American home- | invading | ‘This idea held, even on | In other words or phrases, sport for | the professional should be a business, | 19. batted in—-Simmons, Athletics, | |far as he can at the same time. The | double scheme won't work. The basis of form, as outlincd several dozen or several hundreds of times in these dispatches, is smoothness, a smoothness that is | not to be interrupted by any mental | or physical interruption. Any attempt in the way of effort to |get distance can easily be both a mental and a physical interruption. The average human brain has trouble enough in thinking of one thing at a time. If it is to think along the lines of form, that should be its entire job at the moment. The surprising part will come in how much power one can get without calling on extra effort if the swing or blow is smoothly made. Brown's Battle Line. ‘You can't shove foot ball to one side, not even when May blos- some are beginning to unfurl. Robert can show a harder foot ball schedule than Brown faces next Fall. As fol- iows: September 28, Sphingfield College; October 5, Rhode Island State; October 12, Princeton at Princeton; October 19, | Yale at New Haven; October 26. Syra- cuse at Providence; November 2, Holy Cross at Worcester; November 9, Dart- mouth at Providence; November 16, Norwich at Providence; November 23, New Hampshire State; November 30, Colgate at Providence. This schedule calls for at least six tough games of major caliber. “One, too, must realize,” writes Mr. Cravan, “that Brown is restricted to an en- rollment of 1,300 studenis and it offers no athletic scholarships.” Coach Mc- Laughry also agrees with Alonzo Stagg that Spring training should be opiional with the players, not an enforced per- formance. Golf Suggestions. SHIP without an anchor is far better off than a golfer with a moving, shifting head. The head coming up suddenly wrecks the correct path of the club head and also acis as a check to club head speed. It may be necessary to loosen some- | thing at the top of the spinal cord to free the neck and head, but if the operation isn't too drastic it will save a number of strokes. When head, neck | and spinal cord are all locked there is nothing to do about the matter except | to help the caddie look for a lost ball. | Yet this calls for sanity, and that, | perhaps, is asking too much from any | nation ‘at large. =L 'PEOPLES DRUG BOWLERS | DEFEAT BALTIMOREANS Washington Peoples Drug Stores' bowling team won three of the games in the final 5-game set of a special 10-game block match with the Read Drug & Chemical Co. of Baltimore. | Peoples Drug took 7 of the 10 games | and piled up a total of 5109 against Read’s score of 4,904, a difference of 205 pins. Robertson of Peoples had high total for the 10 games, with 1,109, or an aver- age of 110 9-10 pins per game. Scores for the final five games: PEOPLES. Lz o B9 Robertson ... Follard .. Gundling Hawes | Pavior . We! Harding Briges ... Blake Total HOME RUN STANDING . By the Associated Press. Home Tigers, 1. American League leaders — Blue, Browns, 4; Simmons, Athletics. 4; Foxx, Athletics, 4; Gehrig, Yankees, 3; | Gehringer, Tigers, 3. National League leaders — Harper, | Braves, 4; Wilson, Cubs, 4; Ott, Giants, | 3; Jackson, Giants, 3; Herman, Robins, { 3] O'Doul, Phillies, 3; Hornsby, Cubs, | 3;_Hafey, Cardinals, 3. | 'League’ totals—National, 52; Ameri- can, 49, Grand total, 101, runs yesterday — Gehringer, BOWLING TOURNEY FOR ODD FELLOWS Handicap Affair Will Start at| King Pin No. 2 Drives Monday Night. | ASHINGTON Odd fellows will | | hold their first annual tournament, starting Mon- | | day night at the King Pin | No. 2. It will be a handicap | affair with the high average man shoot- | ing from scratch. Others will be given | | half the difference between their aver- i | ages and his. Entries and requests h)r‘ dates should be filed today with Sec- | | retary Chalmers Groff. | The tournament will be open to all | Odd Fellows in the city and environs, | but those who have not rolled in the fraternity's league will receive no handi- | caps. The tournament will close Fri- | day night. | On Saturday night 14 teams of Balti- more Odd Fellows will engage a like Cravan wants to know what university | number from Washington, and after|J. the battle the bowlers will be feted | at the Raleigh Hotel. A return en- | gagement will take place at the Regent Y | tionally accurate on spare breaks. | Harrison would have broken the doubles | | class A singles. which put him 1t eecond MAY 4. 1929 T0 LEAD TOURNEY Harrison and Rosenberg Top‘ Class A—Former Also I Leads All-Events. 101 118 85 549 526 479 Kismet Co OUNG Paul Harrison and I<#ie Rosonberg. champions of the District Doubles League and stars of the Curb Cafe team. are in a fair way to lift also | the title of the Washington City Duck- pin_Association. Due mainly to brilliant bowling by Harrison, the pair took the lead in class A with a set of 743. This displaced Prank Mischou and Tommy Nolan, Who | c Shepherd! | were in front with 728. Harrison also knocked Mischou out of first place in the all-events. Several nights ago Paul shot 368 with the Curb Cafe team. He came back last night | in the singles, giving him a total of | 1,126, seven pins better than Mischou's. | In shooting 415 Harrison was excep- He | Solom: made 17 spares and 1 strike. | Had Rosenberg been in form he and central (1 record of 760, held by Howard Campbell | Viehmser. and Happy Burtner. Maxie has been | & ailing of sate. A splitting headache | caused him to quit before completing | his set with Curb Cafe. He rolled 328 with Harriton, but a typical Rosenberg | set would l:ave been around 360. However, the surprise of tie night was Jack Ulrich's score of 395 In the & e place. The Masonic and Commercial | Leaguer was three pins short of the | leading mark established by Mischou. | Ulrich’s strings were 103, 150 and 143./ Jack and Glenn Wolstenholme rolled into the prize winning circle of class A with a set of 706, despite an 83 game | that Glenp suffered. Independent No. 2 team, with Robert- son contributing the high set of 346, made an effort to overtake the leading class E five. District National Bank, bnt fell{sshon by 13 pins, with a total of Mt. Nebo ( Seyforth.. Murra: | tndepend Thompson Burch. Velhmyi Rena Levy, the country's leading girl southpaw bowler, pulled a Garrison fin- | & isiiican Jeff. Fire De_ (1.43 far! 88 97 CLASS B. Amits N P Ellert.. Rogers. . n°son 4 J Ellett . (1.438) 96 107 90 04 a3 mphTey Campbell Harmony ( Mossourg. 13 78 95 101129 83 | with a set of 415 in the doubles and 343 | 527 467 474 482 483 469 5110 109 9 6 9 F.D. Stuart ¢ Vi o Grifith Mason Grezory Harville. ! 412 461 546 CLASS E. 1.433) 116 97 120 88 88 96 Don'son. . 456 474 503 1(1.545). 106 113 102 8 ish to win the all-events championship | E:Mullicn 1 of the Washington Women's Duckpin Association tournament at the Lucky Strike. She rolled 110, 125 and 105—340—ir the class A singles, and that was jus. | enough to give her the all-events crown, | with a total of 946. Lucille Preble was | second, with 945. Miss Levy's 340 was | J. 5. Harrison osenberg . Wolstenhs She is a member of the Recreation | team, which won the pennant of the | Bachman District Ladies’ League but failed to Schott .. place in the tournament. | The girle' tournament ended 1ast | yornig night. Tt was by far the most success- | Mitchell ful they ever have held. due to the en- | terprise of President Rose Mulroe and | Secretary Lorraine Gulli and their aides. | {755, R. D. Shephard shared with Miss | Levy the distinction of winning a title | on the final night. She triumphed in | class C singles with a set_of 305. ok | Russein " i | Dusterhomr | S | | Betz .. uady POUBLES. CLASS A. Quaites . Sver >, Quigley . Malcolm Malcalm . vitali . E . Bonbrest Z. Seeley . . Nell . (alley in Baltimore, May 25. | E. Nel | _The Arlington team won the Odd | Fellows' League pennant this season. To clinch the flag they won all three | | games from Washington lodge. Gordon | |led the winning attack with games of | | 118, 99 and 165, a set of 382. His final record. 12 UNLIMITED NINES ‘Twelve teams have let it be known that they will compete in the race for | unlimited honors in the Capital City | Base Ball League, and others may be added before the list closes Tuesday midnight with R. J. Atkinson, league secretary, at the Post sports department. Play will start in the unlimited section May 12. A team will be sponsored in the | American Legion series of the league by | the 40 and 8 organization of the Dis- | trict legion. that was not so interesting were staged | yesterday in weekday leagues here. In the Industrial League Thompson's Dairy squeezed out a 2-1 triumph over Big Print Shop; in the Departmental League Bureau of Engraving overcame Government_Printing Office, 6 to 5. | and in the Government loop Navy Yard | | drubbed Navy, 12 to 3. ! 'MOUNT RAINIER NINE | T START TOMORROW, | Mount Rainier, Md., base ball team will open its season tomorrow, enter- | taining Engine Co. No. 5 of the Alexan- dria Fire Department on the Mount Rainier fleld at 3 o'clock. Bellman or | | Waters will pitch for the home club. | | " Goldenberg’s nine is after a game for | tomorrow with an unlimited class team. | | virginia_White Sox and Hiser's All- | | Stars are specially challenged. Call | Main 5220, branch® 130. | A game for tomorrow is sought by | the Monroe nine for its diamond. Call Rill McMullen at North 2480 today or at | North 10494 tomorrow morning. | | These Monroe players are asked to| irepm‘t tomorrow: Tracey, Perry, Edmonds, Spiddle, Myers, A. McMullen, Fling, Noyes, Ball, Zimmerli, Green and Hail. | National Press Building Cardinals, | | who were to engage Red Arrows to- |day on West Ellipse diamond. will meet the Hume Spring, Va., nine tomorrow at Hume Spring. Anacostia Eagles nine is casting about |for a game in the unlimited class. Call| Lincoln 3806-W between 6 and 7 p.m. MEN’S DUCKPIN LEADERS TEAMS. King Pins, 1.831. Washington-Cenfennial, 1,778. Peoples Drug (suburban), 1,688. —Balboa, 1.712. E—District National Bank, 1,558. DOUBLES. A--Harrison-Rosenburg, 743. B—Thorpe-Carroll, 1726, C—Wurtz-Preusser and Howard-Me- | Nickle, tied, 681. D—Sherbaum-Burgess, 689. E—Camp-Pillsburg, 642. SINGLES. A—Frank Mischou, 399. B—Harry B. Dixon, 417. C—Charles Holbrook, 394. D—J. Ricks, 368. E—J. N. Benner, 327, | Zmzaman RO, = A B c string was two ping short of the league'’s | Two hard-fought games and a third | A Frmme<aEs | M Meredith * E. Bradburn E. Williams | Boston Mischou . : 3 g | Appel Amidon .. : 3 109 | 203568 T, Grifin . Butler . heane . . Levy .. : 9! | Keeler Hoftman Robo . Goodall | Mason .. . Saambold’; Grimth Ford . | E. Fischer .. it Konler | Fowler g v emn 200585 Thada - | severe ! 101 186578 92 88 | 1 | Patton 180827 | Ratien, 105 82 187 wurts . . Jenkins . Freusser Fenton . | Batlenger 831 | \eicner . . Foberti ... 3 . Morganstein ... . | Hall wunard . . Moriarty Burke | Homa Fos Liebermann L Mason 1. Robertson . e o T. Stancill M. Magee = Howard 160 menNickel CLASS C. A ; N Flynn . Irey . McCarthy . Roxers .. Gorton Grosso E Al Yagzie .. Kilmartin A A Cunningham Viehmann .. Klnttz 1 s A. Sievert 11l 9321 284 | warthen 84 . 96 | caimateer . Dorsey Mischou ccinmyel Babeock Owen Stancill Romero g T Cordell Kil Hoteran Burton . p < CIASS C. Strun Morgan Lauer A Conds Lindsay : | Margan Sullivan Mason . D. Shephar | Enters . ~oiem Hunter Auamson itogers Fisher . sozan . McHugh 7724 Klotsbach F. Virts .. M. Whitson M. Cain 1| 3 | 54 37 | Harris 94— 44 | Malcoim #8251 | Payne . . | Haclow . 97_2RA | Cetty 82-218 E. Rafferty M. Tiopett . Wrigeleswi V. Nichols Welss, Jov Loamernian L. 458 506 489 DOUBLES. CLASS A, 141 107 248 olme. | good for second place in the singles. | G- Wolstenholme . . Bonbrest . CLASS E. at Do 192 SINGLES. CLASS A. cLasS F.Don'son 1 Gol. Rule (1,51 Cordel; 113 Municipal (1.532). Kulz 102704 '93 i 11 o Amity 2 (1.426) Wh te 75 Insure Games e TOTAL OF ATITS - CANCELED TO DATE Braves Only Club to Collect on a Contest—Business Has Dwindled. 108 88 04 95113 521 545 561 8o). | 105114 — 93 94 95 BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer EW YORK, May 4 (#).—The business of writing rain insur- ance for major league base ball teams isn't what it used to be, even though the rainy season this Spring has been far more potent | than we average. Of the 44 games washed into Summer double-..eaders and open dates because of excessive moisture about the big league Giamsnds, only one was insured. The Boston Braves took out a $6.000 | policy against rain for the opener with Brooklyn in Boston and started the sca- son with a financial success when the first of a series of steady rains swept the Eastern seaboard. As a whele, however. the business dwindled from a $5.000,000 affair in 1924 to a bare $800.000 worth of policies last season, with the prospect of a still greater drop this year. Stress of in- demnity principles, rather than the possibilities of gambling with the weather and the increased cost of in- surance, seems to have discouraged the customers, 0|~ “The added gate attraction of double- headers later in the scason and the pos- sibility of playing off postponed games on open dates zives major league teams a chance to regain most of the cash | lost during early rains,” Leonard Peter- | son, an official of one of the largest 4| companies handling this tvpe of ‘nsur- ance, explained toda: “Premiums are high on rain insurance and therefore it is not considered good business policy to insure games from day to day. Sin- gle events offer more attractive possi- bilities. 5103 111 117 108 112 521 503 555 HE=TS 2 H 3 s 534 92 113 104 123 120 499 536 512 90 102 89115 478 468 480 | Insurance Cost Varies. Cost of insurance against the weather { varies according to type. Where a con- test, is prevented by rain falling during a period three hours before starting time and one hour after, the premium charge approximates 20 per cent of the insurance taken. If specification is made that one-tenth of an inch of rain must fall, the premium averages 10 per cent. When Babe Ruth toured the prov- inces last Fall the cost of insurance against the weather was $7.500 and the | indemnity paid was a few cents over $7.500. Insurance companies lost 82 | per cent. however, on the $800.000 worth | of policies written against the weather | in 1928, | Many teams in the minor leagues, — | semi-pro base ball clubs and college 185—623 | teams insure their contests against rain. 2 | - The national,elimination baloon race o | starting today at Pittsburgh has been 160628 | insured through a combination of com- 11 panies for $30.000. i Columbia and other universities last 212—¢42 | Fall insured the receipts of several foot | ball games zgainst the inroads of ad- | verse” weather. 'BOWLING PRIZE WINNERS IN WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT TEAMS. Class A—Commercials, 1,549; Hoboes, BQ'BGLI::. 1.501. Navy, 147 Hilltoppers, Convention Hall, 1.415; Treasury, Washington Centennial, 1,439; Kedemption. 1.433. 1% | Class C—Accounts and’ Audits. 1.383; | Aggies No. 2. 1,366; Claims, 1,315; Roll- ing Pin, 1,200, | Class'DInformation, 1.154; Person- 24 | nel, 1,280; Surrenders, 1,275; Lebanon, 238665 1,25 = SINGLES. Class A—Preble, 350: Levy. 340; Bradburn, 322; Goodall, 3207 Reamy, 09 i 196598 97 93 110 205616 12 3 Class B—Minson, 316: Quaites, 315; ;l"'lnzrlrlle)'. 314; Russell, 313; Whitbeck, | _ Class C—Shepherd, 305; Morgan, 297; Leonberger, 293; R. Bowie, M. Jenkins | and H. Wagner, 290. Class D—Robinson, 273; J. Touhey, 268; Wrigglesworth, 265; Siebert, 263; Webster, 263. DOUBLES. Class A—Scott and 629; Frere and Bradt, 611; Yarnell and Pal- mer, 603; Butler and Levy, 603. Class B—Smith and Updike, 612; Forbeti and Morganstein, 600; America and Reamy. 589: Moriarty and Burke, 584; M. Burke and Whalen, 580. Class C—Isemann and Bowie, 611; Yaggie and Kilmartin, 551: Flynn and Irey, 545; Daniels and Greene, 543; Romero and Sclander, 535. Class D—Petar_and Davidson, 585; Hiser and Grant. 538: Bates and White, E: : Cain and Richardseg, 527; Schep- 367 | pach and Watkins, 520.“’ i ALL EVENTS. . Class A—Levy, 946 ble, 945, Class B—Moriart; : Quaites, 900, Class C—Bowie, : Jenkins, 850, Class D—Siebert, 811; Mowatt, 803, .. EPSOM DERBY BOOKIES THINK CRAGADOUR BEST 663 | LONDON. May 4 (#).—Lord Astor’s nz | Cragadour is heid at the shortest odds 1 |in the first call-over for the famous 317681 Epsom Derby to be run over the 1'z- g | mile course on June 5. 91 | Cragadour was held at 13 to 2. Maj. 615 | McCalmont's Mr. Jinks at 100 to 12, | Gay Day and Kopi at 100°to 8, Costaki Pasha and Reedsmouth, 100 to 6; Brienz, Hunter's Moon, Walter Gay Reflector. 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